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Custer County

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Custer County

County in southwestern South Dakota, USA; area 4,038 sq km/1,559 sq mi; population (1990) 6,200. The county is bounded by the Wyoming border to the west. It is named after General George A Custer, who came here in 1874; its seat is Custer. Including within its boundaries Custer State Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, and Wind Cave National Park, it has a thriving tourist industry. The county produces dairy products, livestock, poultry, grain, and timber. There are mines in the area around Custer.

The county was the centre of the South Dakota gold rush of the mid 1870s.
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Burgess, 44, quit as head of Custer County police in Oklahoma after appearing in court on 30 charges of kidnapping, rape and other sex offences.
'Sex slave' nightmare of jail girls by The Mirror (London, England)
Custer County Montana where we live, for example, has absolutely no zoning restrictions, and the only permit we ever needed was a state electrical permit for $50 which we had to have in order for the rural electric company to drag us in a line.
Is bucking the permit system worth it? by Shelhamer, Glenn; Evans, Pat / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
The highly theatrical composition resembles nothing so much as a picture by Gregory Crewdson, and when one realizes that Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek, Valley Road Wildfire, Custer County, Idaho, 2005, is not staged, one has to wonder why it was treated so formally, so luxuriously, with such a sense of portent.
Laura McPhee: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Harris, Larissa / Artforum International
 
 
 
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